Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Empiricism, skepticism
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section V, Sceptical Solution of these Doubts, Part I
1748
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